Category: Environment
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Just because you can’t see it
… doesn’t mean it isn’t there. A Seamonster thumbs up to the striking visuals on this campaign from Advertisers Without Borders.
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Texas shark kill
Yet another illegal shark fishing operation has been caught, this time off Texas. And I heard from a colleague, there was another one caught in the Galapagos. Listen to the story about the texas kill and the 3,000 sharks found dead in the nets here on NPR. HT to Josh Idjadi.
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NYT covers recent shark legislation and SeaMonster!
The NYT ran two articles – here and here – recently about shark fishing and pending legislation to reduce it. I was interviewed for the article exerpted below by Elisabeth Rosenthal because of all the coverage we have had about illegal shark fishing on SeaMonster, eg, here and here. The last 12 months have seen a…
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2011 Arctic ice minimum
Another great – if gloomy – movie from Peter Sinclair, this one about arctic ice loss. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRc_9nNTZg0&[/youtube] Also see this from NASA: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzKgLVidLG4&[/youtube]
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Cat got your fish?
A great op-ed by Paul Greenberg (of Four Fish fame) in the NYT (hat tip to my UNC colleague, tuna goddess Dr. Elizabeth Havice). I suspect many people will be surprised to learn the true fate of so many of the wild fish we catch. I just lectured about this in my Marine Ecology course, and made…
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Smackdown: bear meets squid
Now, I have truly seen everything. We all know the inspiring images from nature shows of majestic bears whacking big salmon out of the water as they make their grueling and intrepid homing migrations upstream (the salmon, that is). But squid? Unlike the photo of the shark in the streets of Puerto Rico (mea culpa)…
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Studying in the Galapagos
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/28165343[/vimeo]
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Courtney Cox – forensic fisheries sleuth
While researching the health of coral reefs and the fate of the parrotfish, Carolina grad student Courtney Cox uncovered a conspiracy at Belize fish markets and restaurants. Mark Derewicz covered the fishy mystery here in Endevors magazine: Let’s face it. A lot of fish fillets look the same and taste the same. But when you buy, say, snapper…
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Daybreak over Antarctica
. . . at the close of this awe-inspiring video overflight of Planet Earth from the space station. Note the light from human civilizations like signal fires burning across the surface of the earth. This is your home. Take a deep breath, turn your room lights off, and switch to full-screen mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny2IU2gIq70 By James…
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Obama presses Iceland over fin whale hunt
From Andrew Revkin at the NYT: On Thursday, President Obama ordered government agencies to ramp up pressure on Iceland to end its slaughter of endangered fin whales, the second largest whale species. But the president stopped short of imposing trade sanctions. He issued a Message to Congress with the details, including this passage: Of particular concern to…